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Liberal border security bill poses serious risk to rights, liberties, coalition warns
OTTAWA - A national coalition of civil society groups says the Liberal government's new border security bill poses a serious risk to human rights and liberties. The Ottawa-based International Civil Li...
Jun 05, 2025 Canada's fentanyl czar Kevin Brosseau, right, is seen with Denver, a Canada Border Services Agency narcotics detection dog, during a tour of the CBSA Lansdowne port of entry in Lansdowne, Ont., on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Ontario to make Ring of Fire a special economic zone 'as quickly as possible': Ford
TORONTO - Ontario intends to designate the mineral-rich Ring of Fire as a so-called special economic zone "as quickly as possible," Premier Doug Ford said Thursday. Ford said he and several ministers ...
Jun 05, 2025
Critic calls out border bill's proposed new cabinet powers on immigration
OTTAWA - An NDP critic says a provision in the federal government's border security bill that would give cabinet the power to cancel immigration documents looks like an attempt to "mimic" measures dep...
Jun 05, 2025
B.C. ministers to make tech pitch in Europe as Eby eyes Asia
VICTORIA - British Columbia ministers are set to travel to Europe in a bid to diversify and strengthen markets for the province's tech industries, even as Premier David Eby continues an Asian trade mi...
Jun 05, 2025
Quebec says it will drop permanent immigration targets to as low as 25,000 per year
MONTREAL - Quebec's immigration minister says the government will drop its permanent immigration targets to as low as 25,000 people per year, and keep them low until Ottawa agrees to slash the number ...
Jun 05, 2025
Nova Scotia premier pitching ambitious 'Wind West' offshore wind energy project
HALIFAX - In response to Prime Minister Mark Carney's bid to make Canada an "energy superpower," Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is floating the idea of dramatically ramping up the province's nascent ...
Jun 05, 2025
Alberta government walks back beer tax hike citing tariffs, need to support business
EDMONTON - Alberta's government has ditched a new fee schedule for breweries that would have seen the province's oldest beer maker pay significantly more in taxes. The schedule, introduced in February...
Jun 05, 2025
PM Carney announces government's new parliamentary secretaries
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced his government's new parliamentary secretary team. Thirty-nine members of Parliament were chosen by Carney to assist ministers and secretaries of stat...
Jun 05, 2025
Trump suggests Biden aides acted without then-president's knowledge -- but says he has no evidence
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump alleged Thursday that officials in Joe Biden 's administration might have in effect forged their boss's signature and taken broad actions he wasn't aware of - ...
Jun 05, 2025
Bank of Canada hearing less ‘catastrophic’ tariff talk from businesses
OTTAWA - Trade-sensitive businesses are telling the Bank of Canada that they're broadly less worried about their "worst-case tariff scenarios" coming true compared to earlier in the year, a senior cen...
Jun 05, 2025
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